Dr. Sunita Puri is a board-certified UCI Health internist who specializes in hospice and palliative medicine.

She earned her medical degree from the UC San Francisco School of Medicine. She completed a residency in internal medicine at the UCSF, followed by a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto.

Puri is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Inpatient Palliative Care Service at UC Irvine School of Medicine. She is the author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, a critically acclaimed literary memoir examining her journey to the practice of palliative medicine and her quest to help patients and families redefine what it means to live and die well in the face of serious illness. A graduate of Yale University and the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship, her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Slate, Wall Street Journal, and Journal of the American Medical Association. She has been featured in The Atlantic, People Magazine, PBS’ Christiane Amanpour Show, NPR, The Guardian, BBC, India Today and Literary Hub. In 2019, The Guardian made a mini-documentary of her work with her patients, which has been viewed more than 3.5 million times. She has been awarded writing residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Mesa Refuge and UCross. She is passionate about the ways that the precise and compassionate use of language can empower patients and physicians to have the right conversations about living and dying.

Puri, who also speaks Hindi and Spanish, sees patients in Orange.

Services:

• Internal Medicine
• Palliative Care

Clinical Interests:

medical ethics